Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
How Despair Helped Drive Trump to Victory
From the Rust Belt to Rural America, Economic and Social Distress Helped Shape the 2016 US Presidential Election Outcome
Can Bitcoin Replace the Dollar?
America’s Rising, Invisible Debt
How Economists Turned Corporations into Predators
The Idea That Businesses Exist Solely to Enrich Shareholders Is Harmful Nonsense
Puerto Rico Is Getting Squeezed, and It Will Cost All of Us
The path of austerity could spread economic pain and social woes far beyond the Caribbean island, says public debt expert Martin Guzman
The Real Cause of the Italian Bank Bailouts and Euro Banking Troubles
How a Banking Union Has Created Deep Divisions that Undermine the Eurozone’s Stability
Imbalances in China's International Payments System
Why it’s urgent that China adjust its balance of payment structure and safeguard its foreign assets
The Hidden Cost of Privatization
Did Young Voters Swing the 2017 UK General Election Result?
This blog post looks at the aggregate picture and collates some micro evidence in a more robust estimating framework to shed light on this question.
The Moral Burden on Economists
In his 2017 presidential address to the National Economic Association, Professor Darrick Hamilton warned that treating economics as a morally neutral ‘science’, and the discipline’s limited attention to structural barriers and overemphasis individual agency, has resulted in bad economics, and bad policy particularly as it relates to racial disparity.
Questions to Consider on Robots and Jobs
Despite dismissive comments by the U.S. Treasury Secretary, facing the challenge posed by robotics replacing human labor raises key public policy questions
Debating Household Debt
INET grantee JW Mason has been engaged in an important debate with the Financial Times’ Matthew Klein over the relationship of household debt to income inequality